118-0501/05 – Regional Economics (REGEC-EBS)
Gurantor department | Department of Regional and Environmental Economics | Credits | 4 |
Subject guarantor | prof. Ing. Jan Sucháček, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | prof. Ing. Jan Sucháček, Ph.D. |
Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Choice-compulsory |
Year | 2 | Semester | winter |
| | Study language | English |
Year of introduction | 2011/2012 | Year of cancellation | 2020/2021 |
Intended for the faculties | EKF | Intended for study types | Follow-up Master, Bachelor, Master |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
Students will be able to:
* identify basic approaches to the location of economic activities
* explain the formation of economic structures
* discuss the development of settlement structures
* analyse location decision-making of enterprises and households
* use the methods typical for location decision-making
Teaching methods
Lectures
Individual consultations
Summary
The aim of the subject is to introduce the fundamentals of regional economics. We will concentrate on the principles of location that form spatial economic structures as well as on particular approaches to regional development.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
E-learning
Other requirements
Další požadavky na studenta
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1. Location decision-making. Enterprise or household as open systems. Economic milieu.
2. Neo-classical, behavioural and structural approaches to the location. Location factors, their evolution and importance.
3. Neo-classical approach or the importance of transportation costs for location. Transportation costs and price. Optimal location.
4. Transportation costs and spatial monopoly. Price strategies of the spatial monopoly.
5. Organisational structure, technology and location of the enterprise. Location behaviour of big and small enterprises. Theory of production cycle and its spatial aspects. New industry and regional centres of the growth.
6. Interaction of localities. Dispersion and concentration. Mechanisms supporting concentration and dispersion of economic activities. Agglomeration effects and their economic importance. Optimal size of the city.
7. Mutual relations of enterprises and formation of spatial structures.
8. Theory of urban structures. Location decision-making of households.
9. Settlement structure and urban systems. Theory of central places. Theory of urban systems.
10. Models of urban development. Urban structures from an evolutionary perspective.
11. Regions, regionalisation and regionalism. Rank/type differentiation of regions.
12. Regional development. Basic approaches to regional development.
13. Contemporary issues linked with regional development.
Conditions for subject completion
Conditions for completion are defined only for particular subject version and form of study
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction
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